Literature scan. Examine the literature in your field (a principal journal, over
the last year, say), and select several examples using
multivariate analysis (2 or more response measures, and/or
multiple independent variables). If you can, try to find at
least one paper using techniques concerned with
relationships between independent and dependent variables
(regression, MANOVA, discriminant analysis), and one dealing
with dependence among variables or observations (factor
analysis, components analysis, cluster analysis, MDS).
[You might want to try searching the Electronic Journals
in the York University Library.]
Submit a photocopy of the first page of the paper (with
abstract and complete reference); please write the
principal analysis techniques and your name on this page.
Also, please send me, by email (friendly@yorku.ca), the
full reference (authors, title, journal, year, volume, pages)
and keywords for the analysis techniques.
Use
this template, or,
type the reference in an email message. Do not send as a Word .doc file.
The following format (surprisingly like BibTeX) would be helpful:
@article{bru:92,
author = {Edvin Bru and Reidar J. Mykletun and Sven Svebak},
title = {Neuroticism, Extraversion, Anxiety and Type A Behaviors as
Mediators of Neck, Shoulder and Lower Back Pain in Female Hospital Staff},
year = 1992,
journal = {Personality and Individual Differences},
volume = 15,
number = 5,
pages = {485-492},
keywords = {StepReg, Correl},
note = {Your Name}
}
Be prepared to discuss:
- In each example, what was the substantive problem of interest?
- How did the author's use of the technique(s) relate to the content problem?
- How were the results of the analyses presented in the paper? What kinds of tables or figures were used to
portray the data?
- Do other techniques suggest themselves for the problem
examined by the author?